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FOIA on Martin Luther King

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by OCR

This Central Intelligence Agency FOIA release, dated 2025-06-12, collects 1976 CIA paperwork on Harold Weisberg's request (76-F-382) for records on Martin Luther King, Jr. It includes routing slips, an Operations Staff memorandum listing releasable press items and exempt cables, dispatches and memoranda, and a CI Staff reply citing a 1968 Office of Security memo on Coretta Scott King. It also contains a 16 May 1968 memo to the FBI reporting that Gerald Lee Richards, investigated in Japan, did not resemble suspect James Earl Ray.

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p. 62 …27 June 1968; Associated Press, London, dated 27 June 1968; United Press International (UPI-16), dated…
p. 71 …Press, London, dated 27 June 1968; 20 Associated Press, London, dated 27 June 1968; 21 United…
p. 155 …New York University Press, 1960. York: New York University Press, 1968. "HM and JPM: Twine of…
p. 156 …John Hopkins Press, 1967. Lefever, Ernest W. Uncertain Mandate. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1967, 1968. Lerner…
p. 158 …United Press International. Two Mrs. Kennedy. National Review. 4 April 1967, pp. 335-336. United Press…
p. 165 …Special Unit Senator: RFK Ammunition. New York: Random House 1970. " Conspiracial" Minority of Con, September 1968…
p. 171 …The had been accused of conspiring to the President of the United States is being interviewed…
p. 220 …COPIES PRINTED (NYT Press Rule) 9708 8300 B. FAIR CIRCULATION 1. SALES THROUGH DEALERS AND CARRIERS…
p. 225 # Political Assassinations in the United States Articles Published in Computers and Automation May 1970 to October…
p. 240 …When the striker plate is pressed against the wall or roof of the mine and the…
p. 245 …Part 1 of the Monthly Computer Census contains reports for United States manufacturers, A to H…
p. 254 …The man had been accused of conspiring to under the President of the United States was…
p. 262 …United States Committee for the United Nations, 1964. Horowitz, Irving L. "Kennedy's Death, Myths, and…
p. 263 …John Pitcherald Kennedy, 1717-1963, President of the United States of America Memorial Association at the…
p. 265 …United Press International United Press International. Prochure of front pages of 91 American newspapers. November 22…
p. 272 …Special Unit Senator: RIK Administration. New York: Random House 1975. "Minority of One, September 1758, pp…

BON-2 (RV 301-71)

OPTIONAL

NO. 1772 2017.4

USSR 616 2017.4

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

1. Memorandum

TO Acting Director. FBI ( DATE: 11/13/72

FROM : Legal Attache, Bonn (105-7501-1779 ) (RUC )

SUBJECT: BERNARD FENSTERWALD, JR.

IS-EG

(OO:WFO)

Enclosed is one copy each of item(s) pertaining to subject received from Bureau Source 300. For details and reporting procedures see Form BON-6 attached to enclosed.

Request enclosure(s) ___ be translated in summary verbatim and enclosure(s) and translation sent to interested field division.

BERNARD FENSTERWALD, JR. Law Offices

Fensterwald & Ohlhausen 905 16th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006

## REMARKS:

ENCLOSURE

The enclosed is a form letter directed by JULIUS MADER (Bufile 100-169674), Mauerstrasse 69, East Berlin, to subject soliciting the latter to buy MADER's book, "Yellow List: Where is the CIA?" and furnishing an order blank for this purpose.

Subject encloses the order blank, indicating he wants one copy in English of the above book, and his personal check in the amount of $2 which shows the designation Committee to Investigate Assassination."

$ \because $ X - bureau (Enc. 1)

1 - NXX Forcign Liaison Desk

2 - Bonn

1 - 105-7501-1779

58DEU: 619/2 105-4658

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